I don't like fat skis in 2" of pow. I don't like them in 6" of pow. I really don't like them until the depth gets closer to a foot and only if the pow is heavy. I think its because I like skiing IN the pow rather than on it.
I still haven't found a ski with true rocker that I enjoy all over the place. Rocker is OK in uncut deep pow, but once it gets cut up I prefer a more traditional design.
Eh here in the powder is not only no fun because you tend to hit hard icey bumps, but also pretty dangerous due to submerged wood and rocks and gullies. In as little as 6 inches of the right type of snow will start to skim the surface and miss all that iceiness.
at 2:23 in the video above is upper starr on a 14 inches powder day. 40 degree pitch and covered with weird icey bump under neath all that snow that you now can not see. The people ahead of me are co workers of mine and all on 170 ish 90mm skis on(hardly skinny) but they were stuck in the snow floundering and dealing with icey bump while I just went faster and made it ski like wide open powder field on a 186cm 110mm ski with full rocker. If I have to deal with ICE I never want to be anywhere near it.
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